Forced convection hanging clothes dryer
a clothes dryer and force-convection technology, applied in the field of clothes dryers, can solve the problems of damage, damage, and damage that can be further exaggerated, and achieve the effect of facilitating and more economical drying and improving the appreciation of the contribution to the ar
Active Publication Date: 2013-05-16
CENNON STAN
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The present invention is about a dryer with a separate drying chamber that can accommodate normal laundry loads from a fully loaded washing machine. This is a big improvement compared to designs with a single chamber, as drying can sometimes take longer than another washing cycle. With multiple chambers, users can customize drying cycles for washing small loads. The dryer has a cabinet with an internal drying chamber, a movable drying rack, and a load-dividing panel that separates the chamber into two sections. It also has a forced convection fan, ambient air duct, exhaust duct, and recycle air duct, which operate in opposite directions for more efficient heat application. This design allows for efficient and effective drying of small loads, making it easier to keep up with washing cycles.
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It is known this combination of rotating and heating damages the clothing.
The damage is particularly a result of the mechanical friction applied to the clothing fabric as it is tumbled.
This damage can be further exaggerated by excessively drying the clothing.
However, these controls are still prone to problem and do not eliminate the tumbling of the clothes.
Additionally, the efficiency of tumble dryers is relatively low and a significant percentage of energy is expended in drying a single load of clothing.
A significant percentage of the energy is consumed through the operation of the drum driving motor and the blower or fan, and a great deal of the energy consumption is from the heating of the air circulated through the drum.
In many cases, air is over heated, and excess energy is wasted, due to the insufficient saturation of the air, being vented, which is partly due to the short time the air is inside the dryer before being vented
Still yet, tumble dryers have further drawbacks including creating a static charge between the clothing, also popularly referred as “static-cling” and wrinkling clothing that has been left unattended, even for a short period of time, within the drum of the dryer after a drying cycle.
Particularly, existing cabinet clothes dryers suffer from the uncontrolled mixing of recirculated air with room air.
Additionally drawbacks include methods utilized for hanging clothing, and further, being of a single cabinet construction wherein all of the clothing are subjected to the same drying cycle regardless of the possible different drying requirement between the clothing.
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[0035]Turning first to FIGS. 1 to 3, clothes drying apparatus representatively embodying principles of this invention is designated generally by reference numeral 10. Dryer 10 includes a vertically elongated cabinet 12 having an interior drying chamber 14 in which to receive clothing or other articles to be dried by the dryer. A drawer with drying rack 16 is slidably mounted to the cabinet 12 by left and right drawer rails 18 and 20 and is slidably between a retracted position where the drying rack is disposed within the drying chamber 14 of the cabinet (FIG. 2) and an extended position where the drying rack is disposed exteriorly of the cabinet (FIG. 1). The extended position permits user access to the drying rack for hanging articles to be dried, and for positioning or removal of all hanging devices. The drying rack 16 is consists of an open frame comprised of interconnected vertically orientated frame members and horizontally orientated frame members. The drying rack 16 includes ...
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A clothes dryer has a cabinet forming a drying chamber and a drying rack slidably mounted to the cabinet and movable between a retracted position where the drying rack is within the drying chamber and an extended position where the drying rack is exteriorly of the cabinet. A removable dividing panel is retained by the drying rack and divides the drying chamber into two horizontal and vertically extending drying chambers. A control system associated with the dryer has selectable modes to operate the divided drying chambers independently or concurrently as a single large drying chamber. A recycle system associated with the dryer permits recycling of heat air to increase drying efficiency.
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]This invention generally relates to clothes dryers, and in a representatively illustrated embodiment thereof, more particularly relates to a specially designed forced convection hanging clothes dryer and associated control system.[0002]Tumble clothes dryers are well known in the field and are commonly used to dry wet clothing by continuously rotating the clothing in a drum while passing heated or unheated air through the drum. Conventionally, all tumble dryers operate on this same principle of rotating the clothing in an attempt to expose more surface area of the clothing to the heated air circulated through the drum to dry the clothing. It is known this combination of rotating and heating damages the clothing. The damage is particularly a result of the mechanical friction applied to the clothing fabric as it is tumbled. This damage can be further exaggerated by excessively drying the clothing. In recent years, there have been efforts made to reduce ...
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IPC IPC(8): F26B21/00
CPCF26B21/00D06F58/20D06F58/10D06F2103/36D06F2103/56D06F2105/30
InventorCENNON, STAN
OwnerCENNON STAN